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Bangladesh will have to develop a number of container depots to get the benefits of the connectivity among member countries covered by Asian highway and trans-Asian railway, reported The Financial Express (Bangladesh).
The country has only one standard container depot at Kamalapur Railway Station.
The Asian Highway has been planned to have 141,000 km roadways crisscrossing 32 Asian countries while the trans-Asian railway will have 81,000 km network stretching from Europe to east and southeast Asia.
The officials said the government would soon conduct a study to find out where to set up depots in the country to facilitate connectivity.
At present, the country has 17 depots in more than 30 land ports with very poor facilities.
The officials said possible sites to develop dry ports would be selected after discussions with other member countries during different regional meeting of ESCAP expert committees.
The Kamalapur depot has better facilities than other depots but it lacks hi-tech handling, Customs, information and communication technology facilities, said an official.
Cargonews Asia
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